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Old Posted May 16, 2009, 7:43 PM
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Favorite Building In London

1.One London Place

2.City Center 1,2

3.The Renaissance

4.The Harriston

5.The Dominion Public Building

6.City Place

7.The Courthouse

8.Talbot Center 1,2

9.Grace Donnelly Women's Health Pavilion

10.The New Police Station

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Is this is a list of options from which we are to choose, or is this your top 10?

If the latter, I really hope by "courthouse" you mean the old courthouse, not the new one. The new(er) one is perhaps the ugliest building in London, and certainly its most visible abomination.

Also, what do you mean by favourite? Best-looking? Inside and outside or only inside?

Here's my top buildings (in no particular order) best-looking from the outside
St. Paul's old Rectory (Richmond and Dufferin)
Dominion Public Bldg
London Life
201 Queens (Clarence and Queens) - this one is contentious, I know
Middlesex College
Labatt Arts Pavilion
Wellington Street Red-brick Apartments
Delta Armouries (New and old parts together)
"Italianate Row" - buildings on East side of Richmond between King and York
new Manufacturing Centre at Fanshawe
Talbot Centre (except I HATE the mall inside - I really wish they had made the businesses face onto Fullarton)
Old Courthouse
St. Peter's Cathedral
110? Cherryhill (the tall one) - also contentious, I know


Some of the Ugliest Buildings in London:
Social Science Centre @ UWO
New Courthouse
Drewlo Apartments on Dundas
White Oaks Mall
University Hospital
Centennial House Apartments
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to choose from and its the new couthouse
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one of the world's ugliest buildings?


shamefully looks down over the Thames, Harris park, etc.
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Without a doubt, the Dominion Public Building.
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I personnaly like the police station its not perfect but i really like the copper plates they are using
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Without a doubt, the Dominion Public Building.
Yeah, that place rocks pretty hard.
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(1) One London Place

(2) Old Courthouse

(3) Dominion Public Bldg

(4) Delta Armouries

(5) Talbot Center 1,2

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I personnaly like the police station its not perfect but i really like the copper plates they are using
Do you have new pics from the police station!!!!!
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Pics and links of New Police Station



Update!!!

Pics and links of New Police Station


London Police Service Headquarters Expansion and Renovation!!!!

Take a look at these pics and links!!!


http://police.city.london.on.ca/News...onProgress.pdf

http://www.csparch.com/#section=3&category=10&page=54

http://www.bondfield.com/correctiona...npolicehq.html[/B]
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For me...

1. One London Place
2. Middlesex College
3. City Centre
4. St. Peter's Basilica
5. Delta London Armouries
6. St. Peter's Seminary
7. Dominion Public Building
8. University College
9. Brescia College residence
10. Dante Lenardon Hall (formerly the Silverwood Mansion)

And among the worst...

D.B. Weldon Library
Social Science Centre
City Hall
Saunders Secondary School
Bell Building

I'm indifferent to White Oaks Mall. The 1988 addition is nice at least.
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^courthouse? as on the worst list?
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I love our crazy brutalist courthouse. Well...maybe love is the wrong word...but I respect it. It looks so ominous and foreboding...powerful...like the strong arm of justice!

And if London ever dumps our mayor and opts for an evil overlord, his office (or throne room) would fit in perfectly in the top floor of that building. With a few decorative touches, some dark clouds, and some circling vultures...that place would make a wicked evil headquarters.
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^ a perfect setting for Friday nite lights. Move the patio to that decrepit concrete mezzanine hallway. If ol Timmy Best decides to get loaded, he can go to court (do not pass go, do not collect $200)
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The old post office is definitely a winner. There's also an unnamed building on Wellington across from Vic Park near Centennial Hall that I've always liked.
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City Hall????
I like the old cibc across from vic park
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I like that one too. Best art deco building

One London Place- best modern building

Old Courthouse- best historic building
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One London Place and the Delta Armouries.
Beal is a cool building, old and huge. JLC is nice also.
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My vote for the ugliest building:


Anyone heard of a paintbrush?
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